[gentoo-user] Re: cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

[John covici]

on Monday 08/11/2008 Nikos Chantziaras(realnc@×××××.de) wrote
 > John covici wrote:
 > > Hi.  I tried to compile net-fs/mount-cifs because when I used smbfs I
 > > got a very prominent message from the kernel saying that smbfs would
 > > be removed in 2.6.27 and I should use cifs instead.  However when I
 > > tried to compile it, I got the following error:
 > 
 > less /usr/portage/net-fs/mount-cifs/ChangeLog
 > 
 > There it says:
 > 
 >    11 Jun 2008; Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o>
 >    +mount-cifs-3.0.30.ebuild:
 >    Version bump (fixes bug #225509, patch included)
 > 
 > http://bugs.gentoo.org says about bug #225509:
 > 
 >    net-fs/mount-cifs-3.0.28 /w glibc-2.8 update: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared
 > 
 > That means you have to use mount-cifs-3.0.30.
 > 
 > Why I wrote all that down?  To point out that looking at the ChangeLog 
 > of an ebuild can give an answer without even asking ;)
 > 

Now that is strange -- I did a google search and did not see that bug
or the changelog or anything pointing to such -- this is why I wrote
to the list.

Thanks much.

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